Last Saturday, 2/1/20, I gave a presentation on Personal Cybersecurity to a full house in the Ferndale Library main meeting room. The librarians had to chase us out because my grandson Christopher and I were still answering questions at five pm when the library closed. If you missed the first presentation, or want a chance to ask more questions, Chris and I are scheduled to give the same presentation at the Lynden Public Library on Saturday, March 7 2020 at three pm. (Notice that the Lynden presentation will be a half hour earlier than Ferndale.)
See the slides from the presentation and links to resources.
This Saturday (2/8/20 3:30p) I will be talking about a closely related subject, Online Privacy, again in the Ferndale Meeting Room. Online security and privacy are closely related subjects that sometimes overlap, but privacy is often harder to understand and the legal boundaries are less clear. Computer security is mostly about traditional criminal activities like fraud and theft in the computing environment. Online privacy, on the other hand, often involves activities that were legal before computing began to amplify the effects of these activities, which have now taken on sinister implications. As a result, current privacy legalities are less clear. Instead of criminals, privacy issues often involve legitimate businesses and disturbing situations where no current law is broken. In this presentation, I will clarify what is recorded today when you go online and live your daily life, what is done with the record, and what you can do to exercise some control. This presentation will be repeated in Lynden at three pm on Saturday, March 14 2020.